Word: mamet
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...power of the story telling owes much to the gift for language displayed by the show’s author, poet David Budbill. Budbill’s dramatic voice, expressed through short poems alternating with longer narrative vignettes, seems more reminiscent of the theatrical poetry of David Mamet than Shakespeare. Budbill writes in rhythms that at once feel authentic to their setting yet almost too perfect to escape human lips. The result is a transcendent form of articulation that often rings truer than life...
...every year, it was at least dry-witted and unsentimental in Morris' typical style. There was the multi-screen device the producers used before the Film Editing Oscar, which actually gave us an idea what film editors do. And there was the inspired idea of having people like David Mamet and Buck Henry write introductions to some of the awards - the fewer clunky jokes misread off the TelePrompTer, the better. (Sorry, Bruce Vilanch, but the statute of limitations on Anna Nicole Smith gags expired about five years...
...David Mamet has emerged as the most revered contemporary American playwright due to his ability to create a distinct language for his characters. Listen to the way the real estate salesmen talk about the “leads” in Glengarry Glenross or how Fox talks about setting up a meeting in Speed-the-Plow. The characters grasp at words as if they were life preservers, futilely attempting to keep their heads above water, eventually drowning in their desperation. To Mamet, the world is a cruel joke; some people are in on it and some aren?...
...professor begins the evening with self-assurance, if he possesses some of the veiled neediness of a typical Mamet salesman, there is that early conflict. If he is sanctimonious and shallow, the student has justification for her antagonism. If he says they are alike only to seem more a man of the people, or better yet, because in his sermonizing he has momentarily convinced himself of that notion, then the play is interesting...
...David Mamet...